There is a plethora of war fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan; in addition, the US military defense budget is -or has approached- $1 Trillion ( Many sources have reported on this statistic: www.the realnews.com, www.democracynow.org, as well as authors: Jospeh Stiglitz, Miriam Pemberton, and Nancy Youssef.) and it is very difficult to ascertain how the Obama Administration will acquire the funds to stimulate the economy.
The salient quandary is Obama's premise of change: Does this include respect for the sovereignty of nation-states? A new level of consciousness? A fresh American conscience? If the US wishes to assert a New World Order it should promote one of an honest broker, a harbinger of peace, an envoy that affirms and engages in humanitarian assistance rather one that tacitly and explicitly entertains the Casus Belli. The international community requires less a USA that flaunts an Imperium Americana, but more a Pax Americana within a community of nation-states that reject the Casus Belli.
Time is a precious gem... one that Obama must maintain near... but unfortunately the present military actions by his Adm. in Pakistan fragment all the euphonic yawps of change: his campaign , his inaugural speech, and his press briefings.
Kendrew Maxwell
ReplyDeleteMr. Naccarato
ENG4U
July 26, 2009
There are many things wrong within our society; lies, deceit, abuse of power, etc. These issues are most prevalent in the government. The government lies and abuses their power to the extent that we have to believe in everything they say is true out of fear.
Obama has bought into this power abuse; we can witness this through the Waziristan issue. He is following in the idea of ‘the war on terror’ however this is not the main point, Obama and his administration will need to fund the war but how? They will most likely lie to their population and rise taxes in order to fund ‘the war on terror’. The Republic of Gilead did something similar but to a much higher extent; they took all money from women and redistributed it into their own programs and to fund their war. This is much like the issue in Brazil. Britain has been secretly dumping toxic waste in Brazil’s waters; again this is the power issue, Britain thinks it can do whatever it wants because they are more powerful and richer than Brazil. This abuse of power will lead into conflicts, which may be hard to neutralize later on. All of these Leaders and governments should realize that if their population finds out what they are doing the population could rebel against them and over run them.
Governments and leaders put fear into both their enemies and their own population, when they gain power. Creating fear makes for easier cooperation from enemies and population. Obama has created fear in Waziristan by ‘authorizing the drone hellfire missiles on Pakistan’ (Bellum) this fear that Obama is placing in the Pakistanis shows his abuse of his power, this fear could lead into the cooperation of Pakistanis or the rebellion of them, however Obama places the fear of invasion in his population so they will continue to help fund ‘the war on terror’. Like Obama the government in Orwell’s 1984 creates a false war which causes the population to fear the ‘outside’ world. Both use this fear to make it seem like they are doing the right thing and protecting its population when in reality they just want more power and wealth.
All in all governments and leader prefer to lie and create fear to gain trust and cooperation than just telling the truth. All they want is more power, more land, and more wealth than they already have. They do not deserve out respect and we must keep a close eye on what our politicians are doing. We also need to make sure we get the whole story and not just the story that OUR government wants us to believe. We need to find the REAL story.